dbalatero

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by dbalatero 5d ago
When one person does it, the FBI is called. When an AI lab does it, it's cute?
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by dbalatero 5d ago
Making these kinds of AI projects with fancy READMEs give you a veneer of authority, but the lack of earned wisdom tends to stick out once a few people glance at it.
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by dbalatero 14d ago
If LWN isn't your exact thing, consider donating to a project you get outsized value from. For me it's neovim, for you it might be something else!
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by dbalatero 17d ago
When it comes to UX, perceived latency is king.
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225 points by dbalatero 17d ago|88 comments
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by dbalatero 25d ago
While I have a CS degree from a good university, I think I see things differently than the author here. I think CS degrees are great overviews of the field and give you 4 years to practice programming basics without needing to worry about y
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by dbalatero 1mo ago
Where are you getting a steak and potato for 2 for less than a bag of Doritos? Is it a 50 lb bag of Doritos?
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by dbalatero 1mo ago
I mean kinda yeah
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by dbalatero 1mo ago
Yeah, there's no mandate for government agencies to use login.gov AFAIK, so they can either go with login.gov or buy the private id.me solution. In general it's not a slamdunk to get agencies to cooperate and use their services, i
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by dbalatero 1mo ago
I've built a few boxes: https://www.printables.com/model/355924-clickable-touch-id-b... https://gist.github.com/KhaosT/1406a6b6bea38f59e059c2afcb39d... You have to carefully tear down and ext
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by dbalatero 1mo ago
Reading it is good, but working with it more directly seems to help retention.
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by dbalatero 1mo ago
You seem to be massively exaggerating here for effect. I think the main point is, if you're building frontend web apps, you should probably know how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript interact to some decently high level. Can you look stuff up
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by dbalatero 1mo ago
> Of course both are useful, but I’d rather have familiarity with the codebase than a deep general understanding of software systems. In my experience, getting that familiarity with a particular codebase in a way that isn't surface-
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
Don't really have the context, but I'd trust the expert that it will get done on the schedule they want. I'd say people on the outside of things often ask these kinds of questions due to lacking any context on production sche
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
God forbid someone see their kids after work. Won't someone think of the potential profits in performatively staying late at work?
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
I guess if you have nothing else to live for except your job, you'd be really psyched to keep dumping more hours into it...
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
I think things like CI, linters, hooks, etc started as defense against humans eventually ignoring it (low blood sugar, under pressure, never cared in the first place, etc). These seem like they would naturally extend to LLMs as well. (I&#x2
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
> My idea is to strip the system down as much as possible and leave only what is required for production. > Development would be done using the full Bun runtime, while production would use its lightweight fork, Cruller. I do not have
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
Unfortunately, I don't think AI companies will opt to throttle onboarding new users via a licensing/training system.
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
Sure, but it's easy to accidentally start up the agent in the wrong directory, like when you open a new terminal. I've done it before when I was distracted (albeit with Claude, not Grok).
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
Is Fable/Mythos a new generation then?
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
That's good to know, but I think maybe the bulk of the original point is still concentrated in the "we always need new models to stay relevant" piece.
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by dbalatero 2mo ago
> Of course, this was a hugely poor read of where the costs actually lie in AI. Training - while no doubt capex intensive - is a fixed, up-front cost. You spend hundreds of millions to train a model, then you are "done". I don&
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by dbalatero 3mo ago
I type the emdash a lot myself; how do you know the author doesn't as well? The copy is simple and readable so even if it is AI, who cares?
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by dbalatero 3mo ago
I just ignore people that can't coherently talk about the pros and cons of Vim.
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by dbalatero 3mo ago
I suspect that while they prefer you to give up all your data, what's even more likely is they are moving fast and breaking things at a rate unseen before, and not enough conversation is happening in design phases where someone can fla
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by dbalatero 3mo ago
Maybe the difference is more of the professionals in the field now haven't built that same muscle, as there's a broader group of people working in tech. Whereas the folks that could fix things in the 90s mainly gravitated to compu
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by dbalatero 3mo ago
Do you have it? I've gotten a lot of use out of it, and I find there's a lot of people without it that love to dismiss it in these kinds of threads as useless. It helps me improvise with others, learn things quickly, play in tune
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by dbalatero 3mo ago
I have it, it wanders a bit, but I don't know what you mean by "out of key". If it wanders, everything would relatively wander with it. I've never found it to be a curse in any case.
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by dbalatero 3mo ago
I have it from early age, and it also shifts now that I'm almost 40. I think the more constantly I use it though, the more it seems to settle back into accuracy.

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